N4 Camera's

Just had a thought.. Watching the replays of some exciting race is something I do once in a while. In GPL I started, along with many others, editing the TV camera's to capture some of the action from different views. Unfortunately each race is completely different as well as each lap. Watching a replay in N4 I found out that by pressing the Space bar I can eliminate the VCR controls and the other information viewed to have an unobstructed view of the race. The way to bring that information back is to again press the Space bar. In the mean time there is no mouse pointer or even mouse control. So, I had this thought... What if while we are in the full screen mode we had control of the cameras through the mouse? Something like Left click for Zoom in, Right click for zoom out, mouse movements moves the camera? Then when we switch back to the viewable VCR controls and what ever, The mouse would work as normal with the pointer. Or something such as that to give us more dynamic control over the camera's without having to continually edit them per race. Just an idea or suggestion for NASCAR Racing 5, or WSC, or...?

I think you can use the "c" shortcut while the controls are hidden. It advances the view to the next sequential view (tv1, tv2, spectator, etc...) -/- WW "Michael Barlow" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:XJvl6.164462$[email hidden]... > Just had a thought.. Watching the replays of some exciting race is > something I do once in a while. In GPL I started, along with many others, > editing the TV camera's to capture some of the action from differentviews. > Unfortunately each race is completely different as well as each lap. > Watching a replay in N4 I found out that by pressing the Space bar I can > eliminate the VCR controls and the other information viewed to have an > unobstructed view of the race. The way to bring that information back isto

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> again press the Space bar. In the mean time there is no mouse pointer or > even mouse control. So, I had this thought... > > What if while we are in the full screen mode we had control of the > cameras through the mouse? Something like Left click for Zoom in, Right > click for zoom out, mouse movements moves the camera? Then when we switch > back to the viewable VCR controls and what ever, The mouse would work as > normal with the pointer. Or something such as that to give us more dynamic > control over the camera's without having to continually edit them per

race. > > Just an idea or suggestion for NASCAR Racing 5, or WSC, or...? > >

Walk Walker wrote in message ... >I think you can use the "c" shortcut while the controls are hidden. It >advances the view to the next sequential view (tv1, tv2, spectator, etc...) > This is true but it's still the static camera views. It's a real bummer watching a great pass and in order to see a crash a few car lengths behind that I have to switch from this camera to that camera and switch from this driver back to that, to the next, to the next till I finally see what I'm after. Even then I can only see what the static camera allows unless I want to edit the camera files. But then I'd have to edit them for each and every lap if you know what I mean. What I'd like to be able to do is to stay with the current camera watching the pass, then pan back to the crash and be able to zoom in or out to see what's going on.

It should be easy to implement a first person shooter type of movement and control for the replays. I would like to have this feature! It might expose some graphical glitches though - at least in GPL I think. Jari Jokinen Michael Barlow wrote in message ...

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> > What if while we are in the full screen mode we had control of the >cameras through the mouse? Something like Left click for Zoom in, Right >click for zoom out, mouse movements moves the camera? Then when we switch >back to the viewable VCR controls and what ever, The mouse would work as >normal with the pointer. Or something such as that to give us more dynamic >control over the camera's without having to continually edit them per race. > > Just an idea or suggestion for NASCAR Racing 5, or WSC, or...? > >

Great idea Michael and I was thinking on the same lines but how hard would this be to re'program into N4 so it would work like this? Thom_j. "Michael Barlow" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Ruxl6.164494$[email hidden]... <snipped> | This is true but it's still the static camera views. It's a realbummer | watching a great pass and in order to see a crash a few car lengths behind | that I have to switch from this camera to that camera and switch from this | driver back to that, to the next, to the next till I finally see what I'm | after. Even then I can only see what the static camera allows unless Iwant | to edit the camera files. But then I'd have to edit them for each andevery | lap if you know what I mean. What I'd like to be able to do is to staywith | the current camera watching the pass, then pan back to the crash and beable | to zoom in or out to see what's going on. | |